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A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam…
A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam was condemned and the whole second Adam justified : being a sermon lately preached on Rom. 8:1 and now published to prevent the further controversy (in one main point) about justification : to which are added reflections on some passages in Mr. Clark's new book called Scripture-Justification / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for Andrew Bell, 1698
Postscript: A POSTSCRIPT, containing a few Reflections upon some Passages in Mr. Clark's new Book,…
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Reader, we had need bestir our selves, and rouse up with holy Zeal for God; for all, even the Foundation,1 is struck at.— Just as this precedent Sermon was going to the Press, a Book came to my hand wrote by Mr. Samuel Clark, a Man of great Learning; and who indeed writes without much seeming Gall or Invectives▪ against any Man's Person (the better to vent his Indignation against the Doctrine he opposes) striving to revive and maintain the Baxterian Error, with such Confidence and barefacedness, that if some able Pen do not answer him, it may do much harm to weak and unwary Christians.
- 1Called Scripture-Justification.
He says,1 He would not for a World lift up the least thought, much less a Finger, or Pen, or utter the least word derogatory to the free Grace of God, or cast the least blemish or speck upon the Reformation, or the worthy Persons that were Instruments in it.
- 1In his Introduction, Pag. 1, 5.
Yet he hath been so unhappy as to attempt the razing and utter overthrowing of that grand Truth, in which mainly the Reformation consisted, viz. Justification by the imputation of Christ's active and passive Obedience, through the free Grace of God, apprehended and received by Faith alone, without any thing wrought in us, or done by us; not by imputing Faith or any other act of Evangelical Obedience, but the imputing of Christ's Obedience and Satisfaction exclusively of all things else whatsoever. And that Faith is only said to justify us objectively, or in respect had to the Object Jesus Christ, which it taketh hold of.